Elliott Carter Quotes
These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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Entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe finally figured out how to separate aluminum from minerals cheaply and also how to produce it on an industrial scale.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.
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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
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We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.
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Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing.
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A lot of people don't give much thought to what they believe, and it's easy for them to hold what often are two conflicting ideas in their head at the same time.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.
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I think with the advent of Reagan, and subsequently, both parties, there's been a strong move towards the advantage given to the richer people, in taxation and grants and supplements and things of that kind. Primarily exacerbated more recently by the Supreme Court's stupid ruling on Citizens United, and now there's a massive flood of money into the political system that I think has subverted the essence of a moral and ethical standard that used to permeate American democracy. Now it's not an admirable process. I think we've gone backwards.
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These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.
